‘Fifteen Men on the Dead Man’s Chest’
Treasure Island.
London: Cassel & Co, 1883.
Price: $9,000.00
About the item
First edition, first issue, in the 2/3/4 Binding with the 5R-1083 ads. Frontispiece map in three colors. viii, 292, 8 [ads] pp. 8vo. Red cloth stamped in gilt (no priority in color). Light shelfwear and a small spot on spine under the title, spine a bit cocked, a bit of foxing to first and last leaves, a few marks in black endpapers. With ownership signature opposite the half-title, dated in the year of publication (rare considering that the book was released between November 14 and about December 7 of that year). Custom cloth dropbox. Beinecke, 241; Prideaux 11; Gumuchian 5443; Grolier 48; Morgan Library, Early Children's Books and Their Illustration, 206; Osborne Collection II, p. 1030.
Item #369680
The enduring children's classic adventure story and the all-time archetypal pirate story. The hesitant issuing of this book (750 of the first issue of 200 were released in various bindings with July ads) is probably due to the lack of enthusiasm shown when first serialized in 1881, but upon the book's appearance, a critic hailed it as the best adventure story in print, and the rest is history.
